Development Across the Life Span, Global Edition, 9th edition

Published by Pearson (July 1, 2022) © 2022
Robert S. Feldman

Title overview

Encourage your students' active learning in human development with an engaging blend of author content, media, and assessment.

The Revel® for the Development Across the Life Span, 9th edition empowers students to actively participate in learning about the most fundamental concepts surrounding human development. This Revel provides a chronological overview of the topic from the moment of conception through death.

Thoroughly updated with the latest research findings and featuring contemporary examples, this edition prompts your students to make connections between the course concepts and their own lives.

More than a digital textbook, with Revel, your students read and practice in one continuous experience — anytime, anywhere, on any device.

This title is a Pearson Global Edition. The Editorial team at Pearson has worked closely with educators around the world to include content which is especially relevant to students outside the United States.

Hallmark features of this title

Pedagogical tools promote mastery and encourage critical thinking.

  • Chapter-opening material helps students identify key concepts about the topics discussed.
  • Development and Your Life features, at least one per chapter, highlight issues relevant to today's multicultural society.
  • A brief vignette at the beginning of each chapter describes an individual and the real-world implications relevant to the basic developmental issues being discussed in the chapter.
  • Journal Prompts elicit critical thinking about the subject matter through written responses.
  • Career references throughout the text help students grasp the applicability of the material to a variety of professions, including education, nursing, social work, and healthcare providers.

A range of features will help your students stay organised.

  • Learning objectives for each major section help your students organise their studying and provide a means for you to evaluate student understanding regarding the specific content.
  • Looking Ahead sections at the beginning of each chapter orientate readers to the topics to be covered, whereas the Looking Back summary at the end ties the chapter together.
  • Putting It All Together integrative concept maps at the end of each part present a short vignette and prompt students to think from multiple viewpoints about what they have learnt.

New and updated features of this title

Engaging features and updated content reinforces student attention to the relevance of course content.

Highlights for the new 9th edition, include:

  • expanded and new coverage of advances in behavioural genetics, brain development, evolutionary perspectives, and cross-cultural approaches to development
  • dozens of revised figures and photos
  • hundreds of new citations from articles and books published in the last few years
  • new topics in every chapter

Updated features From Research to Practice describe a contemporary developmental research topic and explain how it can be applied to everyday problems, prompting students to see the impact of developmental research throughout society. Each concludes with a Shared Writing prompt.

Dynamic content brings concepts to life.

  • NEW: a set of carefully curated videos builds on text content, exploring developmental psychology from various perspectives, including a deeper look into diversity and the latest news in neuroscience.
  • NEW: Myth or Truth and Fun Facts and a Lie interactives make key content come alive for students.
  • NEW: Trending Topic features in each chapter explore cutting-edge research or current events.
  • NEW: Thinking About the Data prompts encourage readers to think about what is behind the data they see in graphs and tables. These critical thinking questions serve as jumping-off points to data-driven Social Explorer activities.

Key features

A series of interactive assessments help your students break down their studying into manageable chunks.

  • Embedded assessments afford students regular opportunities to check their understanding. The results enable you to gauge student comprehension and provide timely feedback to address learning gaps along the way.
  • Video quizzes offer your students opportunities to further their knowledge and test their understanding with time-stamped multiple-choice questions.
  • Shared media makes it easier for you and your students to post and respond to videos and other media. Students can also record and upload their own presentations for grading, comments, or peer review.

Introducing MyVirtualLife.

  • Featuring two simulations in one, MyVirtualLife offers profound insights into the development across the entire lifespan. After the students parent a virtual child (by way of the included MyVirtualChild learning path), MyVirtualLife pivots to the first-person perspective of a virtual adult, providing a vivid sense of the impact of genetics, attitudes, and decisions throughout a lifetime.

Table of contents

PART 1: Beginnings

  1. An Introduction to Lifespan Development
  2. The Start of Life: Prenatal Development
  3. Birth and the Newborn Infant

PART 2: Infancy: Forming the Foundations Of Life

  1. Physical Development in Infancy
  2. Cognitive Development in Infancy
  3. Social and Personality Development in Infancy

PART 3: The Preschool Years

  1. Physical and Cognitive Development in the Preschool Years
  2. Social and Personality Development in the Preschool Years

PART 4: The Middle Childhood Years

  1. Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood
  2. Social and Personality Development in Middle Childhood

PART 5: Adolescence

  1. Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence
  2. Social and Personality Development in Adolescence

PART 6: Early Adulthood

  1. Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Adulthood
  2. Social and Personality Development in Early Adulthood

PART 7: Middle Adulthood

  1. Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Adulthood
  2. Social and Personality Development in Middle Adulthood

PART 8: Late Adulthood

  1. Physical and Cognitive Development in Late Adulthood
  2. Social and Personality Development in Late Adulthood
  3. Death and Dying

Author bios

Robert S. Feldman is a Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Senior Advisor to the Chancellor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. A recipient of the College Distinguished Teacher Award, he teaches psychology classes ranging in size from ten to nearly 500 students. During the course of more than three decades as a college instructor, he has taught both undergraduate and graduate courses at Mount Holyoke College, Wesleyan University, and Virginia Commonwealth University in addition to the University of Massachusetts.

Professor Feldman, who initiated the Minority Mentoring Program at the University of Massachusetts, has also served as a Hewlett Teaching Fellow and Senior Online Teaching Fellow. He initiated distance learning courses in psychology at the University of Massachusetts.

A Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Professor Feldman received a B.A. with High Honors from Wesleyan University (from which he received the Distinguished Alumni Award). He has an M.S. and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a winner of a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer award, and he has written more than 100 books, book chapters, and scientific articles. He has edited Development of Nonverbal Behavior in Children (Springer-Verlag) and Applications of Nonverbal Behavioral Theory and Research (Erlbaum), and co-edited Fundamentals of Nonverbal Behavior (CambridgeUniversity Press). He is also the author of Child Development, Understanding Psychology, and P.O.W.E.R. Learning: Strategies for Success in College and Life. His books have been translated into many languages, including Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese, Korean, German, Arabic, and Japanese. His research interests include honesty and deception in everyday life, work that he described in The Liar in Your Life, a trade book published in 2009. His research has been supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute on Disabilities and Rehabilitation Research.

Professor Feldman is the past president of the Federation of Associations of Behavioral and Brain Sciences Foundation, a consortium of societies that benefit the social sciences. In addition, he is on the board of New England Public Radio.

Professor Feldman loves music, is an enthusiastic pianist, and enjoys cooking and travelling. He has three children and four grandchildren, and he and his wife, a psychologist, live in western Massachusetts in a home overlooking the Holyoke Mountain Range.

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